World in Conflict Benchmark Results

The latest version of Massive's proprietary Masstech engine utilizes DX10 technology and features advanced lighting and physics effects, and allows for a full 360 degree range of camera control. Massive's MassTech engine scales down to accommodate a wide range of PC specifications, if you've played a modern PC game within the last two years, you'll be able to play World in Conflict.

World in Conflict's FPS-like control scheme and 360-degree camera make its action-strategy game play accessible to strategy fans and fans of other genres... if you love strategy, you'll love World in Conflict. If you've never played strategy, World in Conflict is the strategy game to try.

World in Conflict offers an in-game benchmark; which records the minimum, average, and maximum frame rates during the test. Very recently another hardware review website made the assertion that these tests are worthless, but we couldn't disagree more. When used to compare video cards which are dependant on the same driver and use the same GPU architecture, the in-game benchmark works very well and comparisons are apples-to-apples.

First tested was the 1024x768 resolution in WiC, which relates to gamers using a 17" LCD monitor. Based on the test results charted below it's clear that WiC doesn't place a limit on the maximum frame rate (to conserve wasted power) which is good for full-spectrum benchmarks like ours, but bad for electricity bills.

Just as we have seen with 3dMark06 and Crysis, the GeForce 9500 GT just doesn't compete against others near it's series. In perspective to the frame rate scores in Crysis, all of the graphic cards tested share a similar FPS score in WiC. However, with WiC the majority of the pack hovers around 60 FPS whereas Foxconn's 9500GT-256FR3 posts 28 FPS.

With a balanced demand for CPU and GPU power, the 1280x1024 resolution proved to be the turning point for performance. Set to the highest graphics quality settings the Masstech engine allows, World in Conflict begins to really strain all of the GeForce products.

It's been a long run of tests for the Foxconn GeForce 9500 GT Standard OC Edition video card, and it appears obvious that the number and naming designation do not imply a relative performance to the counterparts. While the video games we've tested were playable with the Foxconn 9500GT-256FR3, the settings usually required some tuning and only 1024x768 or 1280x1024 resolutions would work.

In our next section, the heat output and operating temperatures are examined while the power consumption is analyzed.